Today I spent most of my time making prototypes of various pieces of gear with Tiddol. Today we mostly focused on weapons.

The first thing I made was an incredibly sharp and incredibly durable sword made almost entirely out of Mithrilwood, compared to some of the other things we made today it wasn’t very good, but it was still useful as a baseline. Anything that wasn’t better than it in at least one way was thrown out unceremoniously.

The second thing we made incorporated some Dead Tulip and some Drowsy Clover into the mix to cause a debilitating effect on anyone struck by it. I made a version that had me combining the two plants the traditional way and one where I combined the plants alchemically. The alchemical one produced a thick ooze that would seep out of the edge of the blade in small amounts, while the traditional one worked its magic directly on the victim. The alchemical one was more potent while the traditional one was more steady and fast acting, and both of them used roughly the same amount of mana. The alchemical one not only takes a couple moments to properly kick in, but it wouldn’t always affect the victim properly, but it lasts a lot longer and the effects are more intense. I’m not really sure which one would be more valuable in a fight, mostly because combat is not my thing. On arrows though, the alchemical one is much better. It can be designed to use up mana lot faster than the traditional one, mana that would come from the person the arrow is sticking out of, and the effect of the ooze builds up a lot easier than the effect of the traditional one.

The next thing was a result of a misunderstanding on the nature of one of my plants by Tiddol. She told me to make a blade that vibrates really fast, well she used a lot more detail than that but most of the detail simply was not helpful due to her thinking that Singing Grass affected wind and not sound, but the core idea worked great. A blade made out of solid Singing Grass is useless, it breaks way too easily, but making the cutting edge of the blade out of Singing Grass is a different story. Yeah, the blade doesn’t stand up to much of a beating but using a bit of Spellwood, which I hadn’t found a use for until now, I was able to set it up so the whole blade would maintain itself with a bit of mana. The vibration of the edge somehow lets it cut through things a lot better than it otherwise would, and I have no idea why. Tiddol isn’t sure either, but apparently, she met a wind mage that specializes in doing just that with blades made out of vibrating wind. While experimenting with this one I did accidentally cut my arm off with it, luckily it was my wooden arm but still. It justifies my fears from when I first tried making swords with my magic.

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Another one we made incorporated Pipeweed to leach mana from someone hit with the blade. I wasn’t able to get the mana to do anything other than leave the person affected, and it doesn’t remove mana fast enough for anything short of an arrow stuck in the target to be useful, but in that situation it could drain my entire mana pool four times over in a minute, assuming I am not regenerating mana at the time.

Another noteworthy one was when I tried to use Portweed in a blade, but that one will require tons of effort to get right.

These were just the best ones we experimented with today, or at least the ones with the most potential. All of them will require a lot more effort to become viable but we are just trying to figure out what might work and what we should focus on when we stop prototyping.

I know I said it before, but working with Tiddol like this is really fun. She has a kind of experience that I can’t even comprehend and a kind of creativity for instruments of death that I can’t compare to. I kinda think she would have made better use of my powers than I have, at least in the purely creative sense. Of course if she had my powers she never would have gotten a chance to gain that kind of experience, kinda hard to travel the world as a diver when you are stuck in a forest, even worse if there are other forest sprite, nymphs, or dryads in the area because then you don’t even get the benefit of potentially ridiculous amounts of mana because you have to share.

Other than that I spent some more time with Azrezel working on his project with him. We had a small amount of success, but nothing particularly noteworthy.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.